And second, why would you want to edit this particular document? Remember, it's copyrighted by AMS - if you can't prove fair use, you do not have the right to distribute a modified version.
So what? EDIT =/= DISTRIBUTE. why would I like to edit PDFs? because I want to underline and annotate text inside them. The only decent program that does that currently is Foxit pdf (with the Pro Pack, which is neither free or Free). So far, there I have not seen any software available for Linux which lets me add those sort of comments and text underlie/mark.
Lol, it is so funny to read the comments from this story. I found amusing how there are already various comments wondering how would that affect negatively to their health insurance... whereas this would be *great* for say, someone under the NHS as it would allow the doctors to focus on monitoring those specific genetic conditions.
It just show how screwed up the paradigm of insured medicine is... It is a good thing that this sort of genetic monitoring is becoming available for everybody. However, I find it unfortunate to see that it can be used against those people by the same corporations who are supposed to look for your health... go capitalism!
Every time you and your fraidy-cat buddies jumps because something reminds you of a crappy episode of 24 you give legitimacy to those tactics
This means that the terrorists have already won in their "war"... or at least they have succeeded in their plans. The objective of terrorism is not to kill millions of people, I am sure the terrorists (whomever they were, domestics or internationals) who crashed the planes did not imagined that the towers would collapse!
But now, they do not have to do anything, at least not for quite some time because because the population already lives in a fear state and the government is chain-reacting by removing freedom.
Convenient, and typically used, but hardly all-purpose. The better general option, particularly where security is a factor,
What's wrong about the security in SSH?? You can always use SSH in site if you are scared at the possibility of someone sniffing your encrypted packets and it will still be more secure than a serial connection (which sends the information unencrypted)
And about the BIOS... well, SSH won't let you change the hard disk of your server too. So what? if you need to access the bios then you certainly need to use the console (keyb+monitor) but I do not think that administrators spend much of their time playing with the bios values...
Robert A. Henlein science fiction writer. I am currently reading the Friday novel. It is quite nice. I am an Asimov fan (wrote the book I, Robot) but I have read all his science fiction work.
I'd like to be able to carry my laptop to the server room and hook up a VGA input so I can view what's on the server's screen without either purchasing a KVM or lugging in a full external monitor. Sort of like a temporary slave function
I've got a secret for you:
ssh
It can do wonders while working with servers! you can see what's happening in one, *without* having to plug a monitor or KVM or whatever! and guess what! in addition you can monitor what your server do from any place where there is an internet connection!. Neat technology uh? I am *sure* it will get popular among sys admins!
Therefore, it is not illegal if the computer system gives you explicit permission to use it as a gateway and even is configured to assign you an IP.
Right now, a lot of wireless router manufacturers configure their products to allow every connection by default:
DHCP acknowledgement
When the DHCP server receives the DHCPREQUEST message from the client, it initiates the final phase of the configuration process. This acknowledgement phase involves sending a DHCPACK packet to the client. This packet includes the lease duration and any other configuration information that the client might have requested. At this point, the TCP/IP configuration process is complete.
The server acknowledges the request and sends the acknowledgement to the client. The system as a whole expects the client to configure its network interface with the supplied options. It would be illegal, if the computer system explicitly denied access to the client and this *forced* the system in some way to gain unauthorized access (like, cracking WPA or WEP passwords, or spoofing a MAC address, etc).
Aaaah, and this is what differentiates Slashdot from sites like say, digg or reddit.
Thank you!
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Haahaha... that reminded me something. When I first arrived at the UK, I arrived to a friend's house and she had one of those strange things with some painting on the surface. As I had never seen nothing similar before, to me it was a painting with some kind of bag sticked at the back. I thought it was a gift "creation" of her son.
After some time in a talk I raised the subject about that and she laughed very hard (I did too after knowing what was it for) and told me the use of those. They are *very* handy when you want to eat in bed while watching TV as they accommodate to your legs.
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Yup, I still remember when I got all excited about the WinFS Filesystem (yeah, in the ATM Machine) which was supposed to come in Vista... this "leak" was surely "leaked" by Microsoft's hype department.
Shit... and here I am with my Wii accessing Opera and trying to see youtube videos with crappy quality and choppy.
I guess the worst happened as the Wii isn't really good for anything, not games nor media center... none of the 7 games I own really make me play it any more (Zelda, Red Steel, Paper Mario, MonkeyBall, WiiSports, WiiPlay, Excite Truck)... and the prospects are not really nice (Mario galaxy??? yaawn).
Isn't _______ (space program, particle physics, string theory, insert science program that isn't directly applicable to everyday life here) totally useless and a huge waste of money? This money could be better used elsewhere!
I think you could basically ask the same question to any kind of research for which you do not know the results or when/if you are going to get the desired results (pretty much any research no?). The question is plainly stupid. It is not worth now because there have not been any [desired] results, but if there is ever a [desired] result, it will be worth any amount of money and time spent.
People need to understand that science (research) is not engineering where you want to develop certain thing and allocate a specific amount of money and time to do it. With research you might run out of resources and not find the answer or find it using less resources than you planned. Or better yet, finding other unexpected results (like penicillin).
As Isaac Asimov put it:
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'
I agree, after reading some of the release info I got very interested in FC8. Specifically due to PulseAudio. I do not know why but ALSA has *never* liked me (since the first time I tried Linux back around 1997) in any distribution I have tried (Mandrake, Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu). Some applications always end the randomly blocking audio and whatnot. I hope the guy at PulseAudio get Linux sound RIGHT once and for all.
About this GUI for firewall, i have an enquiry. Some weeks ago I was playing with ubuntu trying to make some apply bandwidth limitation (QoS) to a specific application. Specifically to the ubuntu updater which sucks all my 250Kbps when it is upgrading the distribution. After some time in google I learnt that it is nothing trivial and you must configure some iptables files to achieve it.
It would be great if you could bring up the system monitor (gnome) and, similarly to the way you see the CPU used by the processes you could see the bandwidth used and similarly to how you can re-nice some process you could allocate a maximum bandwidth just by right clicking and choose the appropriate option.
Now, that will be something that not even Windows or OSX have... and it will be really cool IMO. It is also very feasible as the technology to do it currently exists in Linux doesn't it?
I don't think that the IT industry has the regulatory pressures that the medical industry has, so he isn't comparing like with like.
It is more than that... I once read a really insightful quote from no one less than Mr. Bill Gates who said (in scope of the Melidan-Gates Foundation) paraphrasing a lot:
"medical research is different from technology research, in that, in technology research you can throw a large sum of money and add some engineers to improve a given technology. But with medicine, you can keep throwing money for years to find a cure against Malaria without results"
I think he is quite right in that sense. Intel can increase megahertz all they want just by throwing enough money whereas medical issues are a hundred times more complex.
And you also have the ethical issues. just some days ago I read a research on the Spanish Flu in which the researchers used (and killed) monkeys to make the trial tests... It really makes you sad to read the research paper explaining how they infected the poor animals and the "euthanased" them...
Democracy, as practiced in the real world, isn't a way to give power to the people. It's a way to give token power to the people, in order that those in positions of real power can draw more
Ah!, and this reinforces my theory (well...not mine but I suscribe to it) that it is not the type of government (democray, comunism, socialism, etc) but the nature of human been what is wrong. All of those paradigms are very well in paper, however in reality there will be always a bunch of people who do whatever they can to get the most power, and Democracy is very good at giving few people a lot of power (in reallity, in theory it should not be like that). I am sure that, in 200 years our grand-grandchildren will study democracy as yet another of the inneficient types of governments tried us.
Now, on the subject of the chemistry kits, I really am very sorry for you guys (in the USA) I was fortunate enough to get one of those chemistry sets when I was younger (in Mexico we have the Mi Alegria brand) and I can tell you it is really cool. Specially when your dad knows about those things (my father is a Prof. in Biology, he knows quite a bit about chemistry ).
I think these kind of toys are one of the most fantastic toys which really can promote family entertainment and which can not be replaced with Nintendos and the like.
Does anyone else think all presentation software should be banned, on the basis of services to humanity?
I do not think so. I am doing a PhD in Multi Agent systems and usually make my presentations in Powerpoint with the Texpoint extension to add LaTex code. In my last two presentations I have used OpenOffice.org Impress with tex2png because I now use Linux for everything in my "work".
However, some of the best presentations I have seen have been done in LaTex using the Beamer class. However when I tried to use it (some time ago) I found it quite complex (even though I write all my papers and am writing my thesis in Latex...).
Presentations are a tool, as any other tool it can be used wisely or stupidly. That does not make the tool more or less useful.
Personally, I use Metacritic which aggregates a number of reviews. Again, it's not perfect, but when it gets a 75 or above score, I can be reasonably certain that I'm not getting a dud game. It might not be my type of game, but if it is, then it shouldn't be disappointing..
Yup, I find metacritic quite useful (I think gamerankings is another site among those lines), however I think that a service similar to what Criticker provides for films would be good. In criticker you put a score to serveral movies you have watched to create a profile and then, the system gives other films you have not scored a score which YOU would most likely give to them (according to some function).
So far, it has worked quite right for me, and the problem I have seen with game rankings is that there are lots of games which have really high scors (like Wii Zelda or paper mario) but after playing them I did not like them...
Now, talking about giving scores, I remember that more than 10 years ago, I used to buy one of those gaming magazines (IGN or GamePro, I do not remember) where the reviewers were usually very critical of the games and the "scores" were just a "good", "bad", "very good" qualifier, as they once properly said that if you gave a game like Super Mario Bros 3 a 100 score then, what scores would you have to give to say Super Mario World?
"It is trivial" is one of the reasons because, as said above, "trivia" = "unimportant information". Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that contains relevant and important information.
I think that Wikipedia policy of removing "trivia" and the NPOV policy crash with one another. The problem you have with your deffinition of Trivia is that you define it as "unimportant information" and the term "unimportant" indicates a point of view. It may be unimportant for you, or for the bunch of guys who are editing the wikipedia but it is important for someone else doing, for example, some research about the mismatches of equipment (cars in this case) in movies, for which some of these information snippets would be relevant.
I haven't said what is trivial. I've merely said that trivia is not good for Wikipedia because providing unimportant info is not part of our goals. But again, who are you to define what is and what is not important information?
In my opinion (which, of course is not neutral) the information contained *in* trivia must be integrated with the rest of the articles. Therefore, it is trivia lists what should be discouraged, but the information must be kept there in a good prose text.
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And second, why would you want to edit this particular document? Remember, it's copyrighted by AMS - if you can't prove fair use, you do not have the right to distribute a modified version.
So what? EDIT =/= DISTRIBUTE. why would I like to edit PDFs? because I want to underline and annotate text inside them. The only decent program that does that currently is Foxit pdf (with the Pro Pack, which is neither free or Free). So far, there I have not seen any software available for Linux which lets me add those sort of comments and text underlie/mark.
Lol, it is so funny to read the comments from this story. I found amusing how there are already various comments wondering how would that affect negatively to their health insurance... whereas this would be *great* for say, someone under the NHS as it would allow the doctors to focus on monitoring those specific genetic conditions.
It just show how screwed up the paradigm of insured medicine is... It is a good thing that this sort of genetic monitoring is becoming available for everybody. However, I find it unfortunate to see that it can be used against those people by the same corporations who are supposed to look for your health... go capitalism!
Shake and squirt! shake and squirt! to share your load!
Every time you and your fraidy-cat buddies jumps because something reminds you of a crappy episode of 24 you give legitimacy to those tactics
This means that the terrorists have already won in their "war"... or at least they have succeeded in their plans. The objective of terrorism is not to kill millions of people, I am sure the terrorists (whomever they were, domestics or internationals) who crashed the planes did not imagined that the towers would collapse!
But now, they do not have to do anything, at least not for quite some time because because the population already lives in a fear state and the government is chain-reacting by removing freedom.
Bah, I guess your client had no problem as he surely knew she could restore the information from THE BACKUP.
Convenient, and typically used, but hardly all-purpose. The better general option, particularly where security is a factor,
What's wrong about the security in SSH?? You can always use SSH in site if you are scared at the possibility of someone sniffing your encrypted packets and it will still be more secure than a serial connection (which sends the information unencrypted)
And about the BIOS... well, SSH won't let you change the hard disk of your server too. So what? if you need to access the bios then you certainly need to use the console (keyb+monitor) but I do not think that administrators spend much of their time playing with the bios values...
Robert A. Henlein science fiction writer. I am currently reading the Friday novel. It is quite nice. I am an Asimov fan (wrote the book I, Robot) but I have read all his science fiction work.
I'd like to be able to carry my laptop to the server room and hook up a VGA input so I can view what's on the server's screen without either purchasing a KVM or lugging in a full external monitor. Sort of like a temporary slave function
I've got a secret for you:
ssh
It can do wonders while working with servers! you can see what's happening in one, *without* having to plug a monitor or KVM or whatever! and guess what! in addition you can monitor what your server do from any place where there is an internet connection!. Neat technology uh? I am *sure* it will get popular among sys admins!
Right now, a lot of wireless router manufacturers configure their products to allow every connection by default: DHCP acknowledgement
When the DHCP server receives the DHCPREQUEST message from the client, it initiates the final phase of the configuration process. This acknowledgement phase involves sending a DHCPACK packet to the client. This packet includes the lease duration and any other configuration information that the client might have requested. At this point, the TCP/IP configuration process is complete.
The server acknowledges the request and sends the acknowledgement to the client. The system as a whole expects the client to configure its network interface with the supplied options. It would be illegal, if the computer system explicitly denied access to the client and this *forced* the system in some way to gain unauthorized access (like, cracking WPA or WEP passwords, or spoofing a MAC address, etc).
Aaaah, and this is what differentiates Slashdot from sites like say, digg or reddit.
Thank you!
Haahaha... that reminded me something. When I first arrived at the UK, I arrived to a friend's house and she had one of those strange things with some painting on the surface. As I had never seen nothing similar before, to me it was a painting with some kind of bag sticked at the back. I thought it was a gift "creation" of her son.
After some time in a talk I raised the subject about that and she laughed very hard (I did too after knowing what was it for) and told me the use of those. They are *very* handy when you want to eat in bed while watching TV as they accommodate to your legs.
I think they call them bean bag trays in the UK.
...are they explosion proof?
I'll patent the kevlar Lapdesk =o)
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Yup, I still remember when I got all excited about the WinFS Filesystem (yeah, in the ATM Machine) which was supposed to come in Vista... this "leak" was surely "leaked" by Microsoft's hype department.
Al gato y al ratón, jugabas con mi amor, al gato y al ratón, sin consideración!
Shit... and here I am with my Wii accessing Opera and trying to see youtube videos with crappy quality and choppy.
I guess the worst happened as the Wii isn't really good for anything, not games nor media center... none of the 7 games I own really make me play it any more (Zelda, Red Steel, Paper Mario, MonkeyBall, WiiSports, WiiPlay, Excite Truck)... and the prospects are not really nice (Mario galaxy??? yaawn).
I think you could basically ask the same question to any kind of research for which you do not know the results or when/if you are going to get the desired results (pretty much any research no?). The question is plainly stupid. It is not worth now because there have not been any [desired] results, but if there is ever a [desired] result, it will be worth any amount of money and time spent.
People need to understand that science (research) is not engineering where you want to develop certain thing and allocate a specific amount of money and time to do it. With research you might run out of resources and not find the answer or find it using less resources than you planned. Or better yet, finding other unexpected results (like penicillin).
As Isaac Asimov put it: The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny
I agree, after reading some of the release info I got very interested in FC8. Specifically due to PulseAudio. I do not know why but ALSA has *never* liked me (since the first time I tried Linux back around 1997) in any distribution I have tried (Mandrake, Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu). Some applications always end the randomly blocking audio and whatnot. I hope the guy at PulseAudio get Linux sound RIGHT once and for all.
About this GUI for firewall, i have an enquiry. Some weeks ago I was playing with ubuntu trying to make some apply bandwidth limitation (QoS) to a specific application. Specifically to the ubuntu updater which sucks all my 250Kbps when it is upgrading the distribution. After some time in google I learnt that it is nothing trivial and you must configure some iptables files to achieve it.
It would be great if you could bring up the system monitor (gnome) and, similarly to the way you see the CPU used by the processes you could see the bandwidth used and similarly to how you can re-nice some process you could allocate a maximum bandwidth just by right clicking and choose the appropriate option.
Now, that will be something that not even Windows or OSX have... and it will be really cool IMO. It is also very feasible as the technology to do it currently exists in Linux doesn't it?
I don't think that the IT industry has the regulatory pressures that the medical industry has, so he isn't comparing like with like.
It is more than that... I once read a really insightful quote from no one less than Mr. Bill Gates who said (in scope of the Melidan-Gates Foundation) paraphrasing a lot:
"medical research is different from technology research, in that, in technology research you can throw a large sum of money and add some engineers to improve a given technology. But with medicine, you can keep throwing money for years to find a cure against Malaria without results"
I think he is quite right in that sense. Intel can increase megahertz all they want just by throwing enough money whereas medical issues are a hundred times more complex.
And you also have the ethical issues. just some days ago I read a research on the Spanish Flu in which the researchers used (and killed) monkeys to make the trial tests... It really makes you sad to read the research paper explaining how they infected the poor animals and the "euthanased" them...
... our "Spare-some-change-lad?" automatic beggars overlords!
Now, that would be a cool idea for a bot net experiment =oP
Democracy, as practiced in the real world, isn't a way to give power to the people. It's a way to give token power to the people, in order that those in positions of real power can draw more
.not mine but I suscribe to it) that it is not the type of government (democray, comunism, socialism, etc) but the nature of human been what is wrong. All of those paradigms are very well in paper, however in reality there will be always a bunch of people who do whatever they can to get the most power, and Democracy is very good at giving few people a lot of power (in reallity, in theory it should not be like that). I am sure that, in 200 years our grand-grandchildren will study democracy as yet another of the inneficient types of governments tried us.
Ah!, and this reinforces my theory (well..
Now, on the subject of the chemistry kits, I really am very sorry for you guys (in the USA) I was fortunate enough to get one of those chemistry sets when I was younger (in Mexico we have the Mi Alegria brand) and I can tell you it is really cool. Specially when your dad knows about those things (my father is a Prof. in Biology, he knows quite a bit about chemistry ).
I think these kind of toys are one of the most fantastic toys which really can promote family entertainment and which can not be replaced with Nintendos and the like.
Does anyone else think all presentation software should be banned, on the basis of services to humanity?
I do not think so. I am doing a PhD in Multi Agent systems and usually make my presentations in Powerpoint with the Texpoint extension to add LaTex code. In my last two presentations I have used OpenOffice.org Impress with tex2png because I now use Linux for everything in my "work".
However, some of the best presentations I have seen have been done in LaTex using the Beamer class. However when I tried to use it (some time ago) I found it quite complex (even though I write all my papers and am writing my thesis in Latex...).
Presentations are a tool, as any other tool it can be used wisely or stupidly. That does not make the tool more or less useful.
Well... just today I read a comment by this guy Mex who has a link to a page with boobs in his signature:
:-)
free boobs! http://dailygrrl.com/ [dailygrrl.com] [mabe NSFW]
I for one, find all his post "interesting"
Personally, I use Metacritic which aggregates a number of reviews. Again, it's not perfect, but when it gets a 75 or above score, I can be reasonably certain that I'm not getting a dud game. It might not be my type of game, but if it is, then it shouldn't be disappointing..
Yup, I find metacritic quite useful (I think gamerankings is another site among those lines), however I think that a service similar to what Criticker provides for films would be good. In criticker you put a score to serveral movies you have watched to create a profile and then, the system gives other films you have not scored a score which YOU would most likely give to them (according to some function).
So far, it has worked quite right for me, and the problem I have seen with game rankings is that there are lots of games which have really high scors (like Wii Zelda or paper mario) but after playing them I did not like them...
Now, talking about giving scores, I remember that more than 10 years ago, I used to buy one of those gaming magazines (IGN or GamePro, I do not remember) where the reviewers were usually very critical of the games and the "scores" were just a "good", "bad", "very good" qualifier, as they once properly said that if you gave a game like Super Mario Bros 3 a 100 score then, what scores would you have to give to say Super Mario World?
"It is trivial" is one of the reasons because, as said above, "trivia" = "unimportant information". Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that contains relevant and important information.
I think that Wikipedia policy of removing "trivia" and the NPOV policy crash with one another. The problem you have with your deffinition of Trivia is that you define it as "unimportant information" and the term "unimportant" indicates a point of view. It may be unimportant for you, or for the bunch of guys who are editing the wikipedia but it is important for someone else doing, for example, some research about the mismatches of equipment (cars in this case) in movies, for which some of these information snippets would be relevant.
I haven't said what is trivial. I've merely said that trivia is not good for Wikipedia because providing unimportant info is not part of our goals.
But again, who are you to define what is and what is not important information?
In my opinion (which, of course is not neutral) the information contained *in* trivia must be integrated with the rest of the articles. Therefore, it is trivia lists what should be discouraged, but the information must be kept there in a good prose text.